Google gives away devices and gift cards in Play Store sweepstakes

Win a Nexus 4, 7, 10, or $10 in Play Store bucks

If you like free stuff, Google has some great news: it is giving away ten Nexus 10 tablets, seven Nexus 7 tablets, and (you guessed it) four Nexus 4 phones, as well as 100 gift cards worth $10 a pop in the Google Play Favorite Things Sweepstakes. Only U.S. residents 18 and older need apply, and a Twitter account is required to enter.

First, you'll need to follow @Google Play. Next, pick something you're fond of in the Play Store -- it can be any movie, music, book, app, game, magazine, or TV show. Tweet a link of the item with #favoritethings. The example given by Google is "My favorite movie on @GooglePlay is Toy Story https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Toy_Story?id=c3986gGp3Qs #favoritethings." Finally, complete the official entry form.

Entrants have until 11:59PM PT on April 24, 2013 to complete the above. For a complete list of official rules, follow the link below. Google luck!

There are a lot more people using Twitter than there are on Google Plus. Twitter gets a ton more mentions in the "regular" media than Google Plus does. You don't see TV shows telling you to use a hash tag on your Google Plus feed.

I do not find it odd, I find it annoying as hell...!!! Why the need for social media and then on top of that not even your own social network...SMH Enough with the social media, enough with monitoring peoples' lives (oops, I mean free membership), enough is enough. If you want to give stuff away just pick random accounts from the playstore, not like you do not already have our information...

You don't understand how business works, do you? You expect a company to just do a giveaway for free, no action on your part, just to be nice? Nope, no such thing. No one is trying to monitor you (Jesus)..
You tweet about the Play Store, and one of it's apps; you generate buzz for Google and a developer; and you get a chance at a gift from Google. Simple as that. Relax.

Jesus wept! Screw Twitter and Facebook contest requirements! I have zero interest in any social media with rare exceptions. I'm certainly not going to expose my personal info for what amounts to this generation's version of a sweepstakes ticket.

Sleep well Google PR people when we learn someone took out a family of 5 in a head-on collision while tweeting to enter a contest they had a 1 in a million chance of winning a lousy $500 device that wouldn't change their lives one iota. Until the wreck of course ...

I went through the rather annoying process to enter - no confirmation - it looked as though nothing happened so have no idea if I entered or not - what a bother (well, if I won something my attitude would undoubtedly change....)